Today the house is used for serious study and cultural events. He also invented a last name, Malaparte, which literally means “bad side”, a play on Napoleon’s last name, Bonaparte.

Sicherlich lag es auch Godards Film von 1963, Le Mépris (Die Verachtung) mit Brigitte Bardot und Michel Piccoli. All images are © each office/photographer mentioned. The red house surrounded and dwarfed by rugged rocks seems an appropriate metaphor for a man battling his ghosts and his memories. "This work could be interpreted as a hybrid of classical and modern architecture: classical in its imposing monumentality, and modern in its domestic functional scale which offers shelter and control over the landscape beyond. Construction was further complicated because they were not allowed to transport materials across the island. A place where he could hide from everything and be alone. It sits on a dangerous cliff 32 metres above the sea overlooking the The house entrance access was carved itself through the outside staircase in its center but the owner bricked the entrance and moved it to the side of the house in 1940.

According to Libera’s son, Malaparte and his architect would often meet in an old trattoria in Rome and spend hours discussing ideas for the house, drawing sketches on the paper tablecloth. Curzio Malaparte died shortly after returning from Asia, from lung cancer in 1957, in Rome.The Italian government and Malaparte’s heirs successfully contested the will and won the case. He even embraced Catholicism before he died, after being an atheist his whole life. Original walnut and pine table conceived by Curzio Malaparte, in situ at Casa Malaparte, Capri. Years later, he would change his name to Curzio, so it would sound more Italian. Why else choose such an inaccessible plot of land? In this film, the architecture takes on a leading role and becomes closely linked to the script of the film. He served all four years that the war lasted and rose from private to lieutenant and he even received the French Cross as an It was after the war that Curzio Malaparte would start his career as a journalist. Apparently, his exotic German name made him feel different from the other children. It is striking for the home of a man who led such an intense life and who travelled so extensively to be so cold and spartan, but then again, it was not really a home. All Rights Reserved. Die Villa Malaparte ist eine Villa des Schriftstellers Curzio Malaparte an der Ostküste der italienischen Insel Capri. © 2018 Babyshark's Minority Report. On the roof is a freestanding curving white wall of increasing height. It sits on a dangerous cliff 32 metres above the sea overlooking the The house entrance access was carved itself through the outside staircase in its center but the owner bricked the entrance and moved it to the side of the house in 1940. The Minimalist Home Design of Capri’s Casa Malaparte. Malaparte, who never refrained from offending someone, described them as perverted, among other things.Malaparte apparently longed for a life of tranquility and seclusion. The relationship between Libera and the very opinionated Malaparte was far from easy, however, and at some point Malaparte decided to continue the project without the architect. In 2017, Kate Moss appeared, resembling a young Brigitte Bardot, in a video for Yves Saint Laurent, Spring 2018. Villa Malaparte was built with local stone extracted from the site itself; as a result, it is as if the house has emerged from the landscape over which it is placed, the stairs seem to exceed the cliff, creating a new height on it.The interior of the house is developed in a very closed manner yet within the house expands inside completely independently. In 1935, he was finally allowed to move around freely, but only after his friend Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law and Minister of Foreign Affairs, personally interceded.In 1937, Malaparte founded a literary and art magazine called It was also in 1937 that Malaparte decided to buy some land in Cape Massullo, a promontory in the southeast of the island of Capri, to build himself a house. This sensitivity is also reinforced in the choice of materials, rejecting the use of the 'concrete characteristic' of other modern buildings of the period. The staircase is presented as a ritual of arrival to the point at which the landscape finally unfolds entirely to visitors.After the death of Curzio Malaparte in 1957 the house—like other great modern works such as the Ville Savoye by Le Corbusier or E-1027 by Eileen Gray—was completely abandoned, spending much of the twentieth century in a state of total disrepair. It sits on a dangerous cliff 32 metres above the sea overlooking the Gulf of Salerno. It suffered from vandalism and natural elements for many years and was seriously damaged, including the desecration of a Malaparte's great-nephew, Niccolò Rositani, was primarily responsible for restoring the house to a livable state. The other names he considered, Curzio Bonalancia, Curzio Borgia-Suckert, Curzio Colonna, Curzio Farnese, Curzio Lamberti, Curzio Pratoforte, were equally pretentious.At the age of sixteen he escaped again, this time joining the French army as a member of the Garibaldian League to fight -perhaps unsurprisingly, given the cold and distant relationship with his father- the Germans, in the First World War. Libera was already one of the most important representatives of Italian architecture, a reference for rationalists. Lying flat atop a cliff on the Isle of Capri, facing out to sea, stuck to the rock like a piece of chewing gum, with its open window in the fireplace, in order to view the sea through fire. Casa Malaparte's interior and exterior (particularly the rooftop patio) are prominently featured in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film, Contempt .